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I play video games; I play Irish music; and I'm particularly interested in post-structuralist theory. My blog is about coming to terms with all those crazy pursuits, and being better at them by understanding them. |
Member Blogs
Why Doesn’t Anything Mean Anything?: Thoughts on Resource Balancing in Games  |
| Posted by Daniel Accardi on Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:10:00 EDT in
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| A few meditations on using rudimentary mechanics and UI elements to deal with big, serious intense philosophical sorts of things. |
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Trending Now: Halo 4 and Appropriating Mechanics |
| Posted by Daniel Accardi on Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:15:00 EST in
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| Three flabby ruminations on some simply bad design decisions in Halo 4. |
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The Elder Scrolls: quantum mechanics and game stories. |
| Posted by Daniel Accardi on Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:55:00 EDT in
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| Musings on how a quantum mechanical model of possibility affects game design. |
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Story where there is none: lessons from Demon's Souls |
| Posted by Daniel Accardi on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:10:00 EDT in
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| A short piece on how Demon's Souls and Dark Souls use the inventory screen to tell a story. |
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Daniel Accardi's Comments
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Comment In: Examining the Pipeline: Demographics of Undergraduate Students Studying Games [Blog - 06/04/2013 - 12:43]
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Hi Ramin, r n r ... Hi Ramin, r n r nI 'm also inclined to wonder at what biases creep in if you 're only looking at self-professed game development majors, versus the actual constituents of the game industry. I 'm sure there are plenty of people - since until recently, this was the only ... |
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Comment In: Beer and Diversity [Blog - 05/29/2013 - 08:15]
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Hey Jen, r n r ... Hey Jen, r n r nGood article. There 's definitely something to this whole thing. In a certain sense, I think there 's a definite economic slant to it: pizza and beer is supposed to be a quick, cheap and dirty as you can get it, and for an individual ... |
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Comment In: Nailing down storytelling terminology [Blog - 05/28/2013 - 08:13]
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Hi Bart, r n r ... Hi Bart, r n r nThat 's certainly one diagnosis, but I don 't know I 'm inclined to say games aren 't great at story, by this definition, simply because it 's a somewhat difficult task. Maybe it 's kind of a question of...personal aesthetic valuation, but if a ... |
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Comment In: The Hero's World or the Worldly Hero [Blog - 05/29/2013 - 03:05]
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Hey Josh, r n r ... Hey Josh, r n r nGreat article. It 's one of those things I tussled with a lot myself, wondering if there might be better ways of doing things - for example, using procedural generation of content, and more naturalistic systems, to give the better impression of a world versus ... |
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Comment In: Time to move on from the gameplay vs. story debate [News - 05/10/2013 - 04:08]
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Does anyone else get the ... Does anyone else get the impression that there 's a bit of a contradiction in this talk, or at least in the way it 's represented It seems like the headline is ignore the debate, go out and create as a way to determine the truth of issues but then ... |
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Comment In: Pursuing a Video Game Masterpiece [Feature - 05/10/2013 - 04:00]
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I agree with Blow about ... I agree with Blow about the ambiguity thing - games do have very different strengths than books and film. Rather than beating the player over the head with a moral, they are strongest when they elicit introspection. r n r nAlthough it 's definitely true that games have different strengths ... |
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